Dutch Filmworks


Opinion: How the evolution from VHS to global streamers is merging markets

Willem Pruijssers, founder & CEO of Dutch FilmWorks and DFW International, recalls the seismic evolution from videotapes and linear domination to global streamers as he looks forward to what the future holds for the market. As a child, I saw the introduction of VHS. Strange to realise that it was not even half a century […]

Dutch FilmWorks launches international sales division

Benelux distributor Dutch FilmWorks (DFW) is launching a global sales division to build on its growing activity in co-production and co-financing. DFW International will focus exclusively on the worldwide sales of TV drama series, feature films, documentaries and kids programming, with a strategy to create a showcase of content from the Benelux region. The new […]

Netflix lines up Benelux & Colombian originals

SVOD service Netflix has commissioned its first original series from Colombia and the Benelux region. In Latin America, it is working with Narcos producer Dynamo to create a currently untitled detective drama, while Undercover is a Belgian-Netherlands coproduction. The Colombia series will go into production in summer 2018, and follows a young detective and her […]

Cinema deal means Sky Atlantic misses out on Behind the Candelabra

HBO has secured a UK theatrical distributor for its upcoming Liberace movie Behind the Candelabra, meaning it sits outside of the premium programmer’s output deal with Sky Atlantic and will not automatically feed through to the channel. Behind the Candelabra has aired on HBO in the US after the premium programmer stepped up and made […]